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See that's how easy it is to be psychedelic nowadays.

Thats if your definition of psychedelia is whacking on some tie dyed clothing, spouting nonsense about dreamcatchers and having the ability to string random words together.

Britain is currently gearing itself up for its 15th summer of love... this comes hot on the heels of last summers 14th summer of love both soundtracked by Ketamine.

If you want to get involved then simply purchase one of the following:

1. A MGMT album.
2. A colourful headband (or any kind of headband really).
3. A penchant for buzz words like psychedelic
4. And a Topman card.

And if you live by the coastline... youre laughin (theres nothing more psychedelic than standing on a beach).



If your reading this its probably too late to get on the bandwagon this year... but dont worry theres always the 16th summer of love.

Someday you will find me caught beneath a landshiiite…

So we were talking the other day and it came to our attention that we hadnt updated the blog in about 6 months... which is a bit slack seeing as how we dont have jobs (well Greggs doesnt count).

Apart from working at Greggs we've mainly been sitting around the house watching daytime TV and eating cereal in our pants.

So there we were sat Watching TV this week when we almost prolapsed at the sight of derivative generic indie band Coulis being interviewed on TV preparing for their big homecoming gig.

Always up for a laugh, down to earth even when they started to make it, always willing to do an interview for us or talking some shit about ‘Ashcroft’.

It seems like only yesterday that you could walk through Widnes town centre and bump into the lads.



Its great to see the guys back in town… see you down the front tonight!

Coulis V's Marmelade

So Extra Mundane caught up with generic indie band Coulis this week, who were in the studio putting the finishing touches to their new album, Fifty Years Of Culture – Diluted!

EXTRA MUNDANE: So what would you say your main influences are.

COULIS: Well we like everything from The Beatles to Oasis.

EXTRA MUNDANE: Cool! So how did you come up with the name Coulis?

COULIS: Well originally we were called The Marmalade but our manger said that it was a bit close to The Jam, so we thought, what’s a diluted form of jam? Hence Coulis!

EXTRA MUNDANE: Wow! So on your new album there’s a lot of songs on there that I would describe as deep. Can you elaborate on this please?

COULIS: Sure, it’s basically because we read the encyclopedia a lot so I guess its obviously going to come through in our songs. It just seeped through like osmosis or summat. In fact we've got one song called The Encyclopedia and another one that’s called Philosophy, which is all about thinking and that.

EXTRA MUNDANE: Amazing. So how did you guys meet?

COULIS: Well it’s actually a really interesting story. We both worked in Comet for six months after leaving school and we basically met there on our first day… Our first day! We got on boss and then we started talking about music and we were like 'boss we like the same bands. Wouldn't it be boss if we were in a band or summat.' So we started to write some songs and we were like these are boss. It was like fate of something.

EXTRA MUNDANE: So how do you deal with the accusations that although you sing about drudgery of working class life you don’t really have any real experience of it?

COULIS: Well… we worked in Comet for six months.

We tried to transcribe the rest of the interview but it was so garbled that the only words we could work out were Widnes, Our Kid and Two's on that. So here's the rest of the interview on video (We should have subtitled it.)



You can catch the boiler-faced idiots on their nationwide tour, which starts next month in support of their new album.

'Our kid loves Starsailor'

So this week Extra Mundane were lucky enough to hook up with boiler faced indie band Coulis.

The facial sand blast victims were in the studio putting the finishing touches to their new ep 'Working down the Call Centre' when they treated us to a spontaneous acoustic performance of some of their new songs and dribbled some nonsense about some of the painstaking processes they have to go through just to pen a two mintue pop song.



Laughed? I nearly jizzed. Literally!